November 9th-13th

Tripp and Landon are holding hands singing the Star Spangled Banner for spirit Friday. So sweet!

Hello!

Please remember we will be out for Thanksgiving break November 25th, 26th and 27th.

Please be sure that you are following proper attendance procedures if your child will be out of school. You need to email attendance (attendance@csdspartans.org) and CC your classroom teacher (eschultz@csdspartans.org).


This week we are continuing our study of creepy crawlies. We finished our bat centers and started with snakes. We will begin studying ants next week.

We have two snake centers and two ant centers so that we leave enough time for Thanksgiving and Native American studies before our break. On November 24th we will have our class "feast." This is for kids only but we will be asking for a cornbread mix, items to make homemade butter, green beans and mac and cheese. I will send this sign up genius out next week so be thinking if you would like to bring any of those items in!

Snake Centers:

We learned that snakes do not have legs, they shed their skin, some snakes are harmless and some are poisonous, snakes can't bite food so they have to swallow it whole, snakes have scales and snakes do not have eyelids.

1. We learned about making patterns and we used beads and pipe cleaners to make a patterned snake.
2. We made a tissue paper snake and wrote three facts about snakes.

Math:

We continued to play monster squeeze on our number line which is a class favorite. We also added two new games. We played "I have, Who has." Each player has a handful of cards with numbers. The first player says "I have 16, who has 3?" The person who has 3 says "I have 3, who has 12?" This game is so fun! We also played a pumpkin seed matching game where you match the number of pumpkin seeds to the number. You draw a pumpkin from the "patch" with a number on it and place that many pumpkin seeds on the card. This works on number recognition and one to one correspondence when counting.

Writing:

We are still working on writing like scientists by labeling, observing and listing. We worked on the capitol Z during handwriting and reviewed all the other capitol letters we have learned so far.

Reading:

We are learning another new poem this week! We are highlighting the rhyming words and learning to "read" the poem by looking for patterns within the words and using the rhymes to help us solve the words. We also finished Marvelous Me! Margot was so patient. :) We will begin learning site words next week! We are also starting our next class big book. We are working on a book called "Mrs. Schultz's Class, Mrs Schultz's Class Who Do You See?" This book is a spin off from the book "Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?"

Science:

Last week we learned all about colors. We watched a neat video about primary colors, secondary colors, tints and shades. Each child received all the primary colors, black and white. Before we started mixing we made predictions about what would happen if we mixed certain colors together. After we made our predictions, everyone started mixing! We sent these papers home because some of the colors that were made were too cool. Ask your chid how he/she made certain colors. The class favorite was GOLD.

Hugs,
Mrs. Schultz